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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : July 2001</div>
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      <b>imult</b> -  multiplication by i the imaginary unitary</p>
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        <tt>y=imult(x)  </tt>
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        <tt>
          <b>x</b>
        </tt>: real or complex scalar, vector or matrix</li>
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          <b>y</b>
        </tt>: complex scalar, vector or matrix</li>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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        <b>imult(x)</b>
      </tt> is a more efficient way to multiply x by i than y = %i*x,
    without the problems occuring when x comprises "special" floating
    point numbers as %inf and %nan.</p>
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z1 = imult(%inf)
z2 = %i * %inf
 
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    <p>B.P.;   </p>
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